As per RFC2368 which defines mailto:, further reinforced by an example in RFC1738, it is explicitly stated that the only valid way to generate a line break is with %0D%0A.
See: stackoverflow
Then, this behavior is not compliant and it seems to be a bug. There should be a white-list of allowed "rich text" like such as %0D%0A
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Core OS
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